The Coast Guard has seized a record amount of cocaine — while Trump says interdiction has failed and is blowing up suspected drug boats

fortune.com/2025/11/16/coast-guard-record-cocaine-seizure-trump-interdiction-venezuela-drug-boats

In justifying American military strikes on boats suspected of smuggling drugs, President Donald Trump has asserted that the longtime U.S. strategy of interdicting such vessels at sea has been a major failure.
“We’ve been doing that for 30 years,” he said last month, “and it’s been totally…

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